The Yellows have decided to part ways with the main sponsor for the past five years, in order to find a new sponsor who will transfer larger sums in light of the decline in revenue
Studmeier and Dorsey. Maccabi is looking for a new sponsor
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Alan Shiver
After five years of adoption, Maccabi Tel Aviv is parting ways with Fox as the group's main sponsor. In recent meetings, the champions' champions thanked the Wiesel family for their contribution to the club, The club has larger sums.
Fox is the leader in the fashion market in Israel and employs close to 9,000 people. In the summer of 2015, it replaced Electra as Maccabi's main adopter and supported the club in the amount of $ 1 million per season. Despite the team's major failures in 2016 and 2017, former CEO Eli Drix managed to keep Fox's support for the club of the same order of magnitude.
Last summer, Harel and Assi Wiesel joined forces to bring Omri Caspi to the team and provided a special amount of $ 200,000 in addition to the club's annual support ($ 1 million) to sign the Israeli forward for three years. Fox has been Maccabi Tel Aviv's third sponsor over the years. Elite has been the team's mythological embracer for nearly 40 years.
Wilbkin. Who will be the Yellows' new dresser? // Photo: Alan Schieber
In the summer of 2008, the Yellows decided to move to Electra, which supported a sum of $ 2 million per season until the summer of 2014, and in its last season transferred $ 850,000. Beyond parting ways with the main sponsor, the yellow club will also have to change their official clothing - Nike has informed Maccabi Tel Aviv that it will stop supporting the club financially and will no longer use the team's official clothing. Maccabi Tel Aviv refused to comment on the news.
"Zizic will play for Maccabi"
In the next few days, a decision is expected regarding the new goal of the Croatian inside player Ante Žižić (23, 2.08 m) in the next two years. According to a senior official at the yellow club, "everything is closed with Žižić and he will play for Maccabi Tel Aviv", but in Spain they still claim that Real Madrid has not yet raised a white flag, and added: "It does not seem likely to them that a player should win at Real "Madrid 3.5 million euros in the next two years, will prefer Maccabi to pay him $ 750,000 in the first season and $ 1 million in the second season - an amount that is less than half of what the Blancos can pay."
Zizits'. "Everything is closed" // Photo: Gettyimages
The Israeli champions are confident that the good relations between the club's professional manager Nikola Vujicic and Ante's brother, Andrea Žižić, who played for Maccabi in 2014, as well as the warm relationship with the player's representative - European super agent Mishko Reznatovic , Who also represents Scotty Wilbkin and Othello Hunter - will decide in their favor.